Earcare Foundation was invited to deliver a presentation to the Rotary Club of Lagos at its annual Christmas/Year End Fellowship at the Lagos Motorboat Club Ikoyi, Lagos. The presentation was on the purpose of educating, advocacy and creating awareness of the importance of ear and hearing health within its communities. The Rotary club members were […]
Earcare Foundation partnered with the Rotary Club of Lagos with the purpose of educating, creating awareness of the importance of ear and hearing health within the mother and child, pregnant population in Sura Simpson Street Lagos Island. The programme was focused on microsuction earwax removal, hearing assessment, diagnosis and management of ear and hearing problems […]
To make audiology services more accessible to low-resourced rural communities in Kaduna state, Earcare Foundation partnered with the Ronchess and Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship to create an Outreach Programme with the Local ENT department (National Ear Care Centre) with the aim of reducing the negative impact of hearing impairment on health, lifestyle, and communicative abilities of […]
Aderinola Olopade is a clinical audiologist specialised in vestibular diagnostics and tinnitus therapy. A graduate of the University College London, she has been practising as a clinical audiologist for the past 10 years. In this interview with KEHINDE OLATUNJI and WALIAT MUSA, she speaks on the importance of auditory health to overall well-being. •Urges governments […]
Community outreach programme in rural areas of Lagos state which took place over a period of weeks in 2015. The objective was to work with the local community and its Primary Care Centres to create awareness and education on hearing loss. We provided the communities of Coker-Aguda, Makoko, Lekki- Epe and Yaba hearing aids through […]
The main objective of the campaign back in 2016 was to assess the hearing health of primary school education students in rural areas of Nigeria. We covered over a 100 students and fitted hearing aids were required to the students also spoke to the school staff and students on the importance of healthy hearing and […]
Loss of hearing represents more than just difficulty hearing sounds. It can lead to social isolation and depression. A new study suggests that hearing loss may also be linked to loss of memory and thinking skills. Hearing loss and psychiatric disorders are frequently co-existent (Psychol Med. 2019 Apr;49[6]:891-897). For example, a person who cannot participate […]
Age-related damage to the inner ear is the single biggest cause of hearing loss. It’s also known as presbycusis. Most people will experience some level of hearing loss as they go older, this type of hearing loss tends to affect both ears and increases as one gets older. Hearing loss and dementia can often occur […]
What is Education? Education brings about an inherent and permanent change in a person’s thinking and capacity to do things. Effective education is a learning experience. Education, as we understand it here, is a process of inviting truth and possibility, of encouraging and giving time to discovery. Education is deliberate. We act with a purpose […]
https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/sensory-functions-disability-and-rehabilitation/world-hearing-forum-members Earcare Foundation was accepted in July 2019 as a member of the new World Hearing Forum, is a global advocacy alliance of all stakeholders in the field of hearing established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote ear and hearing care worldwide. The Forum will be facilitating the implementation of WHO resolution WHA70.13 […]